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| − | The following is a description of the method to switch between user (slave) and kernel (master) modes in the GE 645.<ref>E. L. Glaser +2, ''System Design of a Computer for Time Sharing Applications'', 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference</ref> | + | The following quote is a description of the method to switch between user (slave) and kernel (master) modes in the GE 645.<ref>E. L. Glaser +2, ''System Design of a Computer for Time Sharing Applications'', 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference</ref> |
* Because it was felt desirable to make it possible to branch easily between various programs including between slave and master programs, a certain degree of insurance has to be built into the hardware to guarantee that spurious branches would not take place into the middle of master mode programs from slave programs. As a consequence, a master mode procedure when viewed from a slave mode procedure appears to be a segment which can neither be written nor read. Further, the only method of addressing this segment that is permitted is a branch to the 0th location. Any attempt to get at other locations by branch, execute, return or any other instructions will result in an improper procedure fault causing an appropriate interrupt. | * Because it was felt desirable to make it possible to branch easily between various programs including between slave and master programs, a certain degree of insurance has to be built into the hardware to guarantee that spurious branches would not take place into the middle of master mode programs from slave programs. As a consequence, a master mode procedure when viewed from a slave mode procedure appears to be a segment which can neither be written nor read. Further, the only method of addressing this segment that is permitted is a branch to the 0th location. Any attempt to get at other locations by branch, execute, return or any other instructions will result in an improper procedure fault causing an appropriate interrupt. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 20:29, 24 July 2018
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The following quote is a description of the method to switch between user (slave) and kernel (master) modes in the GE 645.[1]
- Because it was felt desirable to make it possible to branch easily between various programs including between slave and master programs, a certain degree of insurance has to be built into the hardware to guarantee that spurious branches would not take place into the middle of master mode programs from slave programs. As a consequence, a master mode procedure when viewed from a slave mode procedure appears to be a segment which can neither be written nor read. Further, the only method of addressing this segment that is permitted is a branch to the 0th location. Any attempt to get at other locations by branch, execute, return or any other instructions will result in an improper procedure fault causing an appropriate interrupt.
References
- ↑ E. L. Glaser +2, System Design of a Computer for Time Sharing Applications, 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference
